Re: what to check? no IPV6 pings between nodes on the same switch

On Mon, 15 Aug 2022 11:11:41 +0000
Benoit Chesneau <benoitc@enki-multimedia.eu> wrote:

> Setting the IPv4 makes it works indeed! How did you find it? I will
> open a ticket about it. 

Gut feeling :)

Question: Does setting

  ifconfig_ql0="up"

help as well, or do you really have to assign an IP address?

Best
Michael

> 
> Thanks a lot to both of you anyway :)
> 
> 
> Benoît
> 
> ------- Original Message -------
> On Monday, August 15th, 2022 at 13:01, Michael Gmelin
> <grembo@freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> > 
> > On Mon, 15 Aug 2022 10:07:54 +0000
> > Benoit Chesneau benoitc@enki-multimedia.eu wrote:
> >   
> > > So I noticed that tcpdump was enabling the "promiscuous" mode to
> > > the interface. So I tried to do it manually: `ifconfig ql0
> > > promisc` and ping worked even after disabling this mode `ifconfig
> > > ql0 -promisc`.
> > > 
> > > What does happen when the promiscuous mode is enabled? I'm not
> > > sure to understand what is the issue :/  
> > 
> > 
> > Does giving the interface also an IPv4 address make a
> > difference, e.g. ifconfig_ql0="inet 10.0.0.1/24"?
> > 
> > Best
> > Michael
> > 
> > --
> > Michael Gmelin  
> 



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